This mood was picked up by Adrien Tixier, who arrived in London for his first meeting with the man who had appointed him to head the Free French Delegation in Washington a few months earlier. Tixier took the temperature of many conversations and reported to Peake: The General was getting so free a run that unless something could be done to check him he would become unmanageable … With a really strong Committee to challenge the General’s arguments and force him to think out what he wanted to do, the General’s value to France and to the Allies would be enormously improved. He had a powerful and
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